[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 246 (Thursday, December 23, 2004)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 76863-76864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-28089]
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
40 CFR Part 268
[RCRA-2004-0009; FRL-7854-2]
Land Disposal Restrictions: Site-Specific Treatment Standard
Variance for Selenium Waste for Chemical Waste Management, Chemical
Services, LLC
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Withdrawal of direct final rule.
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SUMMARY: On November 19, 2004, the Environmental Protection Agency
published a direct final rule to grant a
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site-specific treatment standard variance from the Land Disposal
Restrictions (LDR) treatment standards to Chemical Waste Management,
Chemical Services LLC (CWM) in Model City, New York. EPA also published
an accompanying proposed rule to supplant this rule in the event EPA
received any adverse comment on the direct final rule. This variance is
for a selenium-bearing hazardous waste generated by Guardian Industries
Corp. (Guardian), a glass manufacturing company. EPA has received a
comment on this treatment variance that it deems adverse, and is
withdrawing the direct final rule. Therefore, this site-specific
treatment standard variance will not take effect on January 3, 2005 and
CWM cannot treat the Guardian waste under a treatment standard
variance. EPA will review and address all the comments received on this
variance and will decide what action to take in a future Federal
Register document. We will not institute a second comment period on
this action.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For general information, contact the
RCRA Call Center at 800-424-9346 or TDD 800-553-7672 (hearing
impaired). In the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, call 703-412-9810
or TDD 703-412-3323. For more detailed information on specific aspects
of this rulemaking, contact Juan Parra at (703) 308-0478 or
[email protected], Office of Solid Waste (MC 5302 W), U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC
20460.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 19, 2004, EPA published a direct
final rule (69 FR 67647) and a notice of proposed rulemaking (69 FR
67695) promulgating and proposing, respectively, amendments to grant a
site-specific treatment standard variance from the Land Disposal
Restrictions (LDR) treatment standards for a selenium-bearing hazardous
waste to Chemical Waste Management, Chemical Services LLC. EPA
indicated that it was promulgating this site-specific treatment
variance as a direct final rule because it believed this action to be
non-controversial. However, the Agency further stated that if it
received any adverse comments by December 20, 2004 on the direct final
rule, it would publish a timely withdrawal of the direct final rule in
the Federal Register, and address the adverse comments and determine
what action to take in a future Federal Register document.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 268
Environmental Protection, Hazardous waste, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: December 16, 2004.
Thomas P. Dunne,
Assistant Administrator, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response.
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Accordingly, the revision to 40 CFR 268.44 published in the Federal
Register on November 19, 2004 (69 FR 67695), which was to become
effective on January 3, 2005, is withdrawn.
[FR Doc. 04-28089 Filed 12-22-04; 8:45 am]
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